The court has already heard that tragic Shane died at the scene of gunshot wounds to his head and trunk.

Retired Detective Garda Sean Lynch told the non-jury court he went to the scene of the shooting that morning.

The court was shown CCTV footage of four men walking on Cruises Street in Limerick, over a week before the shooting.

He identified the four men as John Dundon, Philip Collopy, his brother Kieran Collopy and Barry Doyle, who the court heard was convicted of the murder of Shane Geoghegan.

He told the court two individuals he knew called Phillip Collopy and his brother Kieran arrived at the murder scene.

He said Phillip Collopy handed him his mobile phone, which he then put into a self-sealing evidence bag.

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The three-judge court heard that Philip Collopy subsequently died in an accident.

Prosecution witness April Collins, 26, previously told the court that she, her then partner Ger Dundon, John Dundon and Barry Doyle met in the car park of a pub in Limerick at around 6.30am on the morning of November 9, 2008.

She said it was just hours after Mr Geoghegan was shot dead in a case of mistaken identity near his home in Dooradoyle, which was four doors down from the home of the intended target John McNamara.

Ms Collins who is the former girlfriend of the accused’s brother Gerard previously told the court she witnessed John Dundon ordering Barry Doyle to kill a man called Johnny Mac.

She said John Dundon was “very excited in himself” and was saying “Johnny Mac is dead. We got him.”

April Collins’s sister Lisa, who is another prosecution witness, was recalled to the stand today for cross-examination by the defence.

Mr Brendan Nix SC defending asked her about a Crimecall reconstruction of Mr Geoghegan’s killing which was screened on RTE on November 18, 2008.

Mr Nix said the programme was “very moving” as the family were involved and she agreed that she had seen it but had made no comment when interviewed by gardai in February 2009.

She told the court: “I was afraid to say anything.”

Mr Nix told the court that John Dundon uses his mother’s surname ‘McCarthy’ as his parents never married.